Bamboo Flower Basket
Former TitleBasket
CultureJapanese
Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumWoven bamboo
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 14 × 9 1/2 inches (44.45 × 35.56 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Paulina and Robert Everitt Fund
Object numberF65-23
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DescriptionLarge basket with handle woven into base. The entire basket is woven of intricately intertwined bamboo, including whole and split stalks.Gallery LabelThis bamboo basket is woven from whole and split stalks of bamboo. The irregularity of the form reflects a taste for native folk crafts, known as mingei, the art of the people. Baskets in this style were extremely popular among European and American collectors of Japanese crafts in the early 20th century.
Nathan Bentz and Company, San Francisco, CA , by April 12, 1965;
Purchased from Nathan Bentz and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.
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